Vol. I, Ch. 25
The General Law: accumulation of wealth at one pole is 'accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.'
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From Capital, Volume 1 by Karl Marx
Capital accumulation tends to raise the organic composition of capital, generating a relative surplus population (industrial reserve army) that disciplines wages and concentrates wealth on one pole and misery on the other.
Vol. I, Ch. 25
The industrial reserve army as a 'lever of capitalistic accumulation' and 'a condition of existence of the capitalist mode of production.'
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